Distracted by shiny things

Can't believe last time I updated was when I was stranded in the airport in Doha, well I got home all right and haven't done anything since. Yeah, I suck at recapping things, and India was amazing, a bit too much to attempt to describe. In Brief. Went to Mimbai for a couple of days, looked at the markets, the temples the parks and monuments, took a boat to Elephanta caves and were even asked to 'star' in a Bollywood movie. Hee. Mumbai is so busy and loud and dirty and chaotic and so very alive, wished we were there for longer. From there we took the train to Goa where we looked at the old Portugese part and then the beach which was so beautiful. Huts on a perfect palm beach. Pete broke his arm and had to leave us which was sad but Goa was amazing and I kept buying shiny things. A night bus (that was interesting) took us to Hampi which is an old temple town and possibly the most beautiful place I have ever seen. The landscape was incredible. Huge rocks piled up into hills topped with temples around a winding river surrounded by rice fields. The temples are so beautiful. From the heat of Hampi we took a public bus service to Bijapur. A rather large  mostly Muslim city which is not really on the main tourist track. Did not see s single other tousirst the whole time we were there! It was awesome, really dusty we had to cover our faces and breath through cloth, no one spoke english and 15p bought you a meal. There were wild pigs living on the streets and beautiful Mosques in which we were the only people. People stared so much and some laughed with joy at the sight of us, it was almost scary but not quite. I absolutely loved Bijapur.

if anyone is interested in having a look at photos I finally put them up on facebook and now they've made that shareable so here are the links. But beware, though I selected only my favourite photos there are rather a lot.

Mumbai - Album 1

Goa - Album 2

Hampi - Album 3

Bijapur - Album 4

Since I got back home I have done no work, made no attempt to sort out my summer and have had almost nonexistent social life.

Sad, no? Well actually I have had a great time.

I have become completely obsessed with Heroes. It is wonderful and amazing and taken over my life. After watching all the episodes I have read all the fics I could get a hold of, haunted icon communities and even bought a paid account again so that I can add lots of shiny new icons. I want to talk about Heroes inessenatly and post recs and theories and just LOVE. But I shall do that tomorrow, for now I think it might be bed time.

I have also cut my hair today, It is shorter than I have had it for years and scares me a bit, but at least people for once will notice that it is cut, which they never normally do.

Shiiiit! At quarter past 10 this morning I was supposed to have a two hour driving lesson...

I woke up 20 minutes ago, needless to say just a tad too late... There was a note from my instructor, aparently he waited and rang the door bell and rang my phone (which I'd left at my friend's house) and I just slept through it all. Now two hours of driving is prepaid 44 quid, thank god he said he will come at half two and we will have an hour long lesson, which he didn't have to do. Despite this I obviously suck. :((

Also I booked my theory for Tuesday and so far know nothing. Heh, this will be a fun couple of days.

And not to leave this entry completely pointless, I prersent you with a fic. It is written by everybody at Monday's London Meetup and it is quite brilliant if I say so myself:

(Round Robin: The Battle of the Ships)

Not that it has a name, but annephoenix came up with that and I like it because it's true.

And now I am going to be a good girl and learn my theory.

Have spend entirely too long over here looking at people's pictures, best comments ever. I haven't posted because it is public and I am paranoid and because I don't want to post and get no comments, as stupid as that sounds it will make me sad. Oh and I have no idea how to post pictures in a comment, however I did make an icon with me. Not planning to use it or anything apart from now, but in case anyone doesn't know what I look like and is curious. Not that I look like the icon, my hair being curly and all, but it makes it less likely for people to recognise me. Or something.

In other news I suck. Really. I keep wasting hours of precious revision time on LJ and then lie to myself that it doesn't matter and then I panic. Fun. So in an attempt to actually use my time wisely I will not turn the computer on for the entire weekend. I would want to say longer, but that would be lying. I really can't restrict myself, it is silly but true.

I was going to share the most horrible dream I've ever had, (I have decided to call it a dream as my family is insisting it wasn't real, it sure felt like it and I swear I wasn't sleeping, and I don't believe in ghosts!) but you will probably decide I am crazy.

Half term is pretty nice so far, but that could be because I haven't done anything, well anything constructive anyway. But I will. Soon. When I write the tons of things I am writing. I will try to get as many as I can for tomorrow, but it is physically impossible to do them all. But fear not, by the end of the week you will all get your drabble.

Yesterday was a pretty lazy day, I found foto_decadent which has the most gorgeous pics and as a result changed my layout, I love it so much now, it is pretty!

Also I came across qafdownloads and in my curiosity to see what the big deal is about, downloaded a couple of episodes. Quality terrible, but eight minutes per episode is pretty good if you ask me. I had seen one episode of the British series and quite liked it. I haven't had a chance to see much yet, only half an ep, but I think I am going to like it. Well, I am pretty sure.

Yesterday when anna_bonita was here we watched The Talented Mr Ripley <333 and then we wanted to save a screen cap of Jude Law looking especially lickable and the oddest thing happened. Now I have no grasp of technology and of the proper way of doing this. So we were watching it on my laptop and paused it and did ctrl/alt/prt sc and then paste into paint. Right. So we saved it and then wanted to make another one and as the film played, so did the film in paint. We were both WTF? as the image in paint played the film. We could draw on it and colour bits in, cut stuff on top of it, but the film was there and it played. How the hell did that happen I don't know, maybe it is normal, but I didn't know. We tried a few times and always the same things happened. It was amusing as we could draw and write on it but I still don't know how it happened and as a result have no pretty pics. If anyone has any ideas or explanations, please tell me, for I am lost.

Link gacked from chimbley, Click here, because gay penguins are love. Cutest thing ever. They adopted a rock and looked after it as if it's an egg!!!

And finally before I go and do some maths (parents went to the gym, mum said she is checking how many questions I have done when they get back) I wanted to do the icon meme, because it is pretty, so many icons! But. I can't. :( Page isn't working.

My first ever attempt of posting pictures, I hope it works.

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